FBI loses laptops with classified information

CNN ^ | 02-12-07

[Stonewall Jackson]

Okay, if the FBI lost the laptops, who is going to investigate their disappearance?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[q_an_a]

You forget that this is the FBI, they are easily the least tech ready law enforcement agency in the world. Listen to the Libby trial, they don't even tape record their interviews with suspects and they have lost the notes of the senior Agent In Charge. On 911 it was reported that fewer than 50% could even use a PC.

[stephenjohnbanker]

That would be intelligent, so of course, it was out of the question : )

[NordP]

Headline =

I MEANT to do that...

[NordP]

This is why I wish Rummy or Bolton would be head of FBI, now. This kind of crap wouldn't happen on THEIR watch.

[GingisK]

What ever became of security training and security procedures? Federals have decayed in competence quite a lot these past few years.

[lepton]

The gov't is sticker happy. They put property stickers on everything of value. Then inventory it once a year. If during that year, the property sticker is lost, or damaged, the item (a lap top in this case) is reported as "MISSING".

Yup. Happens all of the time. Lots of lost stuff that isn't lost, just the person responsible doesn't know who it belongs to, or the sticker# was recorded wrong - leaving you with a missing object and an unrecorded object.

We have missing tanks and major vehicles too.

[mgstarr]

Keystone Cops.

[zerosix]

Let's check the semi-recent FBI record: attempt to frame Richard Jewel for Olympic bombing in Atlanta; smear Steven Hatfill as "anthrax person of interest." The not so recent record: Waco; HRT Snipers take out separatist's wife and 14 yr old son, and granting agent in charge a promotion - WOW.

Very little to defend FBI against actions that clearly do not reflect an agency that needs serious housecleaning, if not massive cuts in funding.

[Doe Eyes]

CNN, we know you're a little behind the "curve" of the news, but it's now 2007.

The Inspector General reported this today.

[Lokibob]

Once, I had an 18,000 gal fuel tank replaced. They forgot to drop it from the list. Next inventory, of course, missing.

I told the logistics guy that all they really were doing is keeping track of tags, not really the property. He got mad and told me that I had property to control, not tags.

I went to the salvage yard, dug around and found my old tank. I took the property sticker off it and handed it to the logistics guy. You would have thought it was Christmas, he was so happy. Then, in my "I told you so" voice, I said "see, you do only control the tags, not the property". I lost a friend for a week, till he forgot all about it.

[Calpernia]

I believe that is the excuse that was tried in Los Alamos.

I didn't buy it then either.

[Calpernia]

>>>What ever became of security training and security procedures?

It was replaced with sensitivity training and tolerance procedures.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

People in the fbi should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. They should be sued for this.

[Dumpster Baby]

The gov't is sticker happy. They put property stickers on everything of value. Then inventory it once a year. If during that year, the property sticker is lost, or damaged, the item (a lap top in this case) is reported as "MISSING".

When I worked for Generous Electric I couldn't find a mysterious item with a property tag during the yearly inventory. I was determined to find out what it was and what happened to it. Hours later I found the property tag, checked it off the list as "one each", and thus the tagged building we were in did not go onto the "missing" list.

[NordP]

I'm sorry, I didn't know that the picture I chose to post (#25) reverted to an ad for tripod.

Feel free to remove my post. Sorry for any inconvenience on my behalf!

[Terpfen]

It does that because Tripod disallows linking directly to pictures hosted on their servers.

The correct procedure in this instance would be to save the picture to your hard drive, go to a free image upload service like imageshack.us, upload it there, then link it into your FR post.

[NordP]

Thanks!